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* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' gives a real freaking scary example. One SCP is a small object that the Foundation calls "the Red Sea Object". The Foundation discovers that the object can be used on mirrors to open a portal to an unknown world filled with futuristic technology and bizarre humanoid monsters that attack and absorb any living thing they see. Eventually while exploring they discover a journal belonging to a ''third'' alternate universe's version of an SCP agent. The journal reveals that the strange world is an alternate version of Earth and tells what happened to it. [[spoiler: An [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]], god-like being known only as He arrived on that version of Earth during the Industrial Revolution and caused a huge tech boom before starting a massive Earth that both left most of humanity destroyed but also turned those who weren't killed into the humanoid monsters that now roam the Earth. Not only that but there are numerous copies of the Red Sea Object that are all linked to other parallel universes, and there's a possibility that He could use the Red Sea Object copies to travel to any of those alternate worlds... ''including ours''.]]

* Literature/{{Worm}} is set on Earth Bet. On May 20th, 1982, a cruise ship crossing from Plymouth to Boston discovered a golden man floating over the ocean. He was Scion, the world's first superhero. After his appearance, people all over the world started developing powers. A parallel earth known as Earth Aleph also exists where this did not take place, but the two were joined up when a [[ScienceHero tinker]] created a portal between them, allowing communications and media to spread. The protagonists watch both earths' versions of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels and conclude both suck.

* The many, many, many varied scenarios created over the years by the members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. They also created a weekly comedic AH-themed forum series, ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'' -- in which the members explore various Alternate History timelines. You can access the site and its discussion board [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/ here]].

*** ''Literature/AmericasStepbrotherAmericasEnemy'' is also of this website and follows the same story, though this time with the United States circa 2014. This one is more optimistic in tone but sadly is now defunct. And yes, it's an ''even bigger'' ass-whooping for those Inner Party jerkwads, as they're facing up against modern UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks with 1950's conscripts and [[AwesomeButImpractical comically over-engineered war-machines]].

** The Statue of Progress, a sister statue to Lady Liberty, was build instead of the Port Said Lighthouse.
** The United States reformed themselves as the United ''Zones'', merging all states save Alaska in 3 zones. A first merge happened in 1980 but didn't last long, while a second merge in 2013 is expected to last at least for the next few decades.

** The US declared independance in 1786
** Abraham Lincoln's iconic hat was a bowler
** George Washington chopped down his father's apple tree [[spoiler: officialy; in reality, it was a [[EldritchAbomination Special Tree]]]].
** Most of the US high-tech companies have been amalgamated as the Department of Technology and it's commercial arm, Maize Machines (an obvious parody of Apple).

* The many, many, many varied (and often [[ShownTheirWork well researched]] and highly detailed) scenarios created over the years by the members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. They also created a weekly comedic AH-themed forum series, ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'' -- in which the members explore various Alternate History timelines. You can access the site and its discussion board [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/ here]].

* The many, many, many varied (and often [[ShownTheirWork well researched]] and highly detailed) scenarios created over the years by the members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. They also created a weekly comedic AH-themed forum series, ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'' - in which the members explore various Alternate History timelines. You can access the site and its discussion board [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/ here]].

** ''Literature/SuperpowerEmpireChina1912'' - The attempt to turn China into a republic after the fall of the Qing dynasty peters out, and instead a neo-imperial regime is set up. By preempting China's fall into warlordism, civil war and revolutionary upheaval, it fast-forwards its resurgence as a great power.

* ''Literature/BoldlyGoing'' explores a world in which the CIA et al. Overestimate the Soviet Space program in the early 1980s, and Reagan demands a response, resulting in Space Station Enterprise, built from the converted frame of the never-flown orbiter of the same name. The outcome of an American Space Station in the late 1980s is explored through the 2020s.

* The Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses universe to a small extent. It mostly reflect our own world but their are small divergances such as Super Mecha Death Christ killing Hitler a year early.

* A sadly defunct-for-years website contained rules for a tabletop RPG set in alternate world where, in the Old World, the hominid family tree branched out into half a dozen sentient species that were all analogous to various fantasy races (elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, orcs, goblins, and of course humans), while in the New World dinosaurs never went extinct and gave rise to several races of intelligent saurians (all with culture similar to the Aztecs). Also, dragons. Completely illogical, but fun.
* ''[[http://theshatteredworld.blogspot.com/ Shattered World]]'' starts with a war between Nazis and Soviets in, which goes better for the Soviets as Stalin didn't purge the officer corps. A very short ceasefire occurs, just before a WORSE World War Two that is still ongoing in 1949, with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons being commonly used. There's even a [[http://shatteredwiki.wikispaces.com/ wiki]] for it.

* ''WebOriginal/IllBethisad'' [[http://ib.frath.net/w/index.php is a world]] that diverged from ours rather often since Roman times. The Holy Roman Empire never fell, the USA don't exist as such and nuclear weapons are used a bit more freely. History is still remarkably similar. For example, the Second World War is started by the German chancellor [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Hessler]]. Many aspects of this particular universe seriously disregard the basic rules of casauality, so it's one of the softer, less realistic alternate histories, but still [[RuleOfFun rich in content and plenty of fun]].

* [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/alternate_universe_sci_fi_channel This]] [[Website/TheOnion Onion]] Article is about a new show on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] that is about a world where Germany didn't win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Apparently a Nazi victory stops Sci Fi from changing its name.
* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'' is pretty much one of these being written in real time. On the story's starting date in 2008, God announces to the world that the gates of Heaven are closed, and humanity should just lay down and die, accepting that they'll go to Hell. Unsurprisingly, a significant portion of the population takes issue with this and declares war on Hell, and then Heaven. All kinds of real life figures factor into the story, and some real events are worked in shortly after they happen.
* The ''[[http://mdc01957.deviantart.com/gallery/26497479 RDNA-verse]]'' is one, and in part an ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' AU. It follows an alternate Earth where where the course events (at once distinct and very familiar) turned generally for the better. That ''was'' until an upheaval called the Terror changed history irreversibly in the 1920s...among other things as various stories unfold over the next 100 years. The name itself comes from one of the prominent countries: The Royal Dominion of New Austria, which would have been Mexico in OTL.
* ''[[http://www.kebe.com/for-all-nails/ For All Nails]]'' expands on Robert Sobel's ''For Want of a Nail.'' The similarity of the title to ''For All Time'' is intentional-''For All Nails'' offers a [[DarkerAndEdgier darker, more dystopian take]] on Sobel's timeline.

* ''[[Website/SpecWorld The Speculative Dinosaur Project]]'' takes place in an AlternateUniverse where the K-Pg asteroid never hit. [[DeathWorld It doesn't look fun.]]
* The [[http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/index/ Speculative Evolution forums]] have a fair amount of alternate histories, such as one project in which the K/T Extinction happened in the Jurassic, and one in which all fantasy creatures really exist.
* ''Literature/TheFountainheadFilibusterTalesFromObjectivistKatanga'' - Explores what might have happened if Creator/AynRand and Creator/LRonHubbard had decided to cooperate in creating an [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] nation-state...in the former Belgian Congo.
* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' parodies this, as Kimiko wonders what would've happened [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ if the Permian and Cretaceous extinctions never happened]] oh my ''God'' it's alternate prehistory fanfiction!
** It was a thinly-veiled ship-fic between her and her old physics TA.
* ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'': [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-612 RPC-612]] which is the statues from alternate timelines creep into mainline reality and change to fit the one they came from. Examples:
** A marble slab commemorating a terrorist plane attack
** A statue of Grigori Rasputin in a timeline where he was cannonized as a saint equal-to-apostals
* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' gives a real freaking scary example. One SCP is a small object that the Foundation calls "the Red Sea Object". The Foundation discovers that the object can be used on mirrors to open a portal to an unknown world filled with futuristic technology and bizarre humanoid monsters that attack and absorb any living thing they see. Eventually while exploring they discover a journal belonging to a ''third'' alternate universe's version of an SCP agent. The journal reveals that the strange world is an alternate version of Earth and tells what happened to it. [[spoiler: An [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]], god-like being known only as He arrived on that version of Earth during the Industrial Revolution and caused a huge tech boom before starting a massive Earth that both left most of humanity destroyed but also turned those who weren't killed into the humanoid monsters that now roam the Earth. Not only that but there are numerous copies of the Red Sea Object that are all linked to other parallel universes, and there's a possibility that He could use the Red Sea Object copies to travel to any of those alternate worlds... ''including ours''.]]
** There is one object in the Spanish branch, [[https://scp-int.wikidot.com/scp-es-061 a VHS player]] that when a movie tape is inserted it plays the WhatCouldHaveBeen version of the film, but when a documentary is inserted the display is this trope. A documentary about Nelson Mandela's road to unite South Africa becomes one about racial riots that destroyed the country; another about the fall of Carthage becomes one about its rise (complete with radical changes in alphabet and dominant language); and documentaries about the Cuban missile crisis and the evolution of man displayed results that were expunged. Of course, it's not too hard to imagine [[WorldWarIII what the former]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt was about]]. The latter, meanwhile, was apparently so disturbing the O5 forbid further experimentation with historical non-fictional material.

* ''Blog/TheBlackLegionOfTheDarkLordSketchMelkor'' supposedly [[http://beyonddesolation.tumblr.com/post/67328370366/fake-of-house-spoiler-submitted-our-conquest-of invaded Canada]], with Gothmog the Balrog Lieutenant from Literature/TheSilmarillion heading that particular expedition.
* Literature/{{Worm}} is set on Earth Bet. On May 20th, 1982, a cruise ship crossing from Plymouth to Boston discovered a golden man floating over the ocean. He was Scion, the world's first superhero. After his appearance, people all over the world started developing powers. A parallel earth known as Earth Aleph also exists where this did not take place, but the two were joined up when a [[ScienceHero tinker]] created a portal between them, allowing communications and media to spread. The protagonists watch both earths' versions of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels and conclude both suck.
** The Endbringers have devastated huge areas of the world and killed millions of people since their appearance in the mid-90's. Because of them, Japan has been reduced to third-world status, several landmasses, including Newfoundland, are underwater, and cities like Rio de Janeiro and Moscow have become irradiated wastelands.
** Several other inhabited Earths make appearances as well: Earth Shin also had superpowers appear, albeit in very small numbers compared to Bet... but one of those was a mind-controller who enslaved every parahuman on the planet and set herself up as supreme ruler of all humanity, [[BewareTheSuperman whom nobody can oppose]] because superpowers trump any weapons they could raise against her. Earth Cheit, meanwhile, had a very different sort of religious reform in place of the Protestant Reformation, which ultimately lead to a global theocracy with absolute power ruling over mankind. Also, their population is over ten billion.
* The NewsParody ''[[Blog/ElChiguireBipolar Chigüire Bipolar]]'' uses this trope often to compare or contrast reality and hypothetical situations.
* In ''Podcast/WithinTheWires,'' small details revealing how the retrofuturistic AlternateUniverse became so different from our own are gradually parceled out over the faux cassette tapes that make up its episode format.
** Season 1's "Cassette #3: Insomnia, Feet" provides clues that the story is set in the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], while "Cassette #5: Focus, Nose" reveals the point of historical divergence, when it was decided that nationalism, tribalism and familial loyalty were the root causes of war and violence, to be eliminated through drastic social engineering, in the aftermath of an alternate World War II.
** Season 2's "Cassette 1: Tate Modern (1971)" terms the PointOfDivergence "The Great Reckoning" and implies that it was comparatively brief, (ending in a peace accord by 1938) but exponentially more devastating on a worldwide level, which facilitated creation of the OneWorldOrder called "The Society" within a decade.

* [[http://www.uchronia.net/ Uchronia]] is an alternate history literature list.

* The ''[[http://www.dawnofvictory2289.com/ Dawn of Victory]]'' setting originally started as a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire''. Unfortunately, the developers were forced to shut down the mod project for RealLife reasons but have continued to develop the setting by posting articles. The basic premise is loosely based on Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' novels (with some elements borrowed from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', as the aliens are using tripods), with an advanced interstellar empire attacking Earth in the middle of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Humans are being crushed by the superior enemy until the major powers develop atomic weapons and push the enemy back to the Southern Hemisphere. Afterwards, the three major powers (Democratic Federation, Soviet Union, and Greater German Reich) dominate the post-war world. They use the remains of Scinfaxi technology to advance and eventually develop first space and then interstellar travel, settling a number of extrasolar colonies. When hostilities on Earth resume, humanity evacuates the planet en masse and then nukes the entire surface to keep it out of Scinfaxi hands. Now, human space is split up between the three major powers, as well as minor nations like the Empire of Japan, the United Centauri Republic, the Islamic Arab Republic, the Federal Nordic Cooperative, the Vega Confederation, the Italian Social Republic, and the Spanish State. And, of course, the Scinfaxi still represent a major interstellar threat, although they mainly stay out of human affairs. For bonus points, some of the videos made of the setting show that the Soviets and the Nazis have completed a number of projects that have historically been scrapped, such as the Palace of the Soviets and the Volkshalle.

* ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'': [[http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-612 RPC-612]] which is the statues from alternate timelines creep into mainline reality and change to fit the one they came from. Examples:

** There is one object in the Spanish branch, [[http://scp-int.wikidot.com/scp-es-061 a VHS player]] that when a movie tape is inserted it plays the WhatCouldHaveBeen version of the film, but when a documentary is inserted the display is this trope. A documentary about Nelson Mandela's road to unite South Africa becomes one about racial riots that destroyed the country; another about the fall of Carthage becomes one about its rise (complete with radical changes in alphabet and dominant language); and documentaries about the Cuban missile crisis and the evolution of man displayed results that were expunged. Of course, it's not too hard to imagine [[WorldWarIII what the former]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt was about]]. The latter, meanwhile, was apparently so disturbing the O5 forbid further experimentation with historical non-fictional material.

** There is one object in the Spanish branch, [[http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-061 a VHS player]] that when a movie tape is inserted it plays the WhatCouldHaveBeen version of the film, but when a documentary is inserted the display is this trope. A documentary about Nelson Mandela's road to unite South Africa becomes one about racial riots that destroyed the country; another about the fall of Carthage becomes one about its rise (complete with radical changes in alphabet and dominant language); and documentaries about the Cuban missile crisis and the evolution of man displayed results that were expunged. Of course, it's not too hard to imagine [[WorldWarIII what the former]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt was about]]. The latter, meanwhile, was apparently so disturbing the O5 forbid further experimentation with historical non-fictional material.

* The ''[[http://mdc01957.deviantart.com/gallery/26497479 RDNA-verse]]'' is one, and in part an ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' AU. It follows an alternate Earth where where the course events (at once distinct and very familiar) turned generally for the better. That ''was'' until an upheaval called the Terror changed history irreversibly in the 1920s...among other things as various stories unfold over the next 100 years. The name itself comes from one of the prominent countries: The Royal Dominion of New Austria, which would have been Mexico in OTL.

** ''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=94562/ Fight and be Right]]'' by [=EdT=] is a timeline where Randolph Churchill's political career takes off and he dominates Brittish politics for 20 years, by the '40s [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AlCapone is president of France, the Federation of Worker's Republics is suppressing an Islamic insurgency in Egypt, a social-democrat German Empire dominates Central-Eastern Europe, Czarist Russia is still a big kid on the block and Israel is in Western Australia and Yiddish-speaking]].

* The Website/YouTube channel ''WebVideo/AlternateHistoryHub'' is entirely dedicated to coming up with realistic, highly detailed and oftentimes amusing answers to questions like "what if Germany won UsefulNotes/WorldWarI" or "what if [[UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky Trotsky]] rose to power instead of [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]]". The channel will also commonly use a similar formula to analyze fictional settings of popular works and try to figure out how such a scenario would play in real life. Think of it like a video version of ''Blog/WhatIf'', except it's for history instead of physics.

* The ''[[http://www.dawnofvictory2289.com/ Dawn of Victory]]'' setting originally started as a total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire''. Unfortunately, the developers were forced to shut down the mod project for RealLife reasons but have continued to develop the setting by posting articles. The basic premise is loosely based on Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' novels (with some elements borrowed from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', as the aliens are using tripods), with an advanced interstellar empire attacking Earth in the middle of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Humans are being crushed by the superior enemy until the major powers develop atomic weapons and push the enemy back to the Southern Hemisphere. Afterwards, the three major powers (Democratic Federation, Soviet Union, and Greater German Reich) dominate the post-war world. They use the remains of Scinfaxi technology to advance and eventually develop first space and then interstellar travel, settling a number of extrasolar colonies. When hostilities on Earth resume, humanity evacuates the planet en masse and then nukes the entire surface to keep it out of Scinfaxi hands. Now, human space is split up between the three major powers, as well as minor nations like the Empire of Japan, the United Centauri Republic, the Islamic Arab Republic, the Federal Nordic Cooperative, the Vega Confederation, the Italian Social Republic, and the Spanish State. And, of course, the Scinfaxi still represent a major interstellar threat, although they mainly stay out of human affairs.

** ''Literature/SpirallingOutOfControl'' The ''very'' detailed {{doorstopper}} timeline in which the Nineties get a healthy dose of {{deconstruction}} and {{BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor}} resulting in a darker turn of events. It all starts when breakup of Yugoslavia [[TitleDrop spirals out of control]].

** An older example from the forum would be ''1983 Soviet Union ISOT to [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', which has the USSR of that time [[AlienSpaceBats transported for reasons unknown]] into Orwell's dystopia. Once they get their act together, the result is one CurbStompBattle after another over the three superpowers. It says a lot that even at their most questionable actions and motives, compared to the others the Soviets are very much ''[[BlackAndGreyMorality the good guys]].''

* ''Website/{{Enthalpy}}'' is set in 2001. A giant wall was constructed in Earth's orbit to deflect the (real-life) asteroid AL00667. Also, children drive hovercrafts and advanced genetic engineering allows for the creation of giant insects and cans that spray instant pig clones.

*** Also notable is the [[MassTeleportation ISOT]] where the devastated Canadian cities in ''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'' are replaced with their ''CanadianPower'' counterparts, as well as Canadian Forces bases, ships, and other pieces off infrastructure. ''[[http://www.alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=172044 Currently ongoing]]''.

** ''Literature/{{Reds}}!'', a series by Jello Biafra (no, not the punk front man), depicts an alternate history in which President UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley was not assassinated, and in the resulting political climate (which marginalized Progressive reformers due to UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt never becoming president), socialism becomes much more popular in the United States. After a much more brutal UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (made more brutal, ironically, by the well-meaning attempts of internationalists like William Howard Taft to build stable international alliances), the American populace is radicalized and heavily divided, a powder keg ready to explode, until the Great Depression sparks a revolution in the United States.

** Several other inhabited Earth's make appearances as well: Earth Shin also had superpowers appear, albeit in very small numbers compared to Bet... but one if those was a mind-controller who enslaved every parahuman on the planet and set herself up as supreme ruler of all humanity, [[BewareTheSuperman whom nobody can oppose]] because superpowers trump any weapons they could raise against her. Earth Cheit, meanwhile, is united under a global theocracy (seemingly derived from the Abrahamic religions) and has a population of over ten billion.